THE IPSWICH MAN 221 
no animal matrix behind. No stone implements of any- 
kind were found with the skeleton, but in the boulder 
clay at the place of discovery, and in other localities, 
Mr Moir has collected many specimens representing a 
rude and early stone culture, very similar to the series 
of implements which M. Rutot has obtained from the 
older Pleistocene deposits in Belgium. To this early 
Pleistocene culture — the one which precedes the Strepyan 
— M. Rutot has given the name of Mesvinien. Whether 
or not the Ipswich man represents an inhabitant of East 
Anglia prior to the deposition of the chalky boulder 
clay, there is no doubt men were then in that part of 
England ; and in the opinion of those who have studied 
the works of their hands and brains, they were workmen 
who showed a considerable knowledge of flint fracture. 
The Ipswich skeleton represents a tall man, 5 feet 
io| inches (rSoo m.) in height. The cavity of the skull 
was filled with a sandy, chalky loam, giving a fairly 
accurate cast of the brain which had at one time occupied 
the space. The skull itself was much broken, but it was 
possible to reconstruct the main features of the head. 
The brain capacity for so tall a man is low, only 1430 c.c. 
A.11 the characters of the skull are those we are familiar 
with in modern man. The characters we associate with 
Neanderthal man were absent. The forehead was re- 
treating, and the supra-orbital ridges were pronounced, 
but of the divided modern type. When viewed from 
the side and from the front (fig. 77), the skull fits 
comfortably within the frame designed for modern 
English skulls. The maximum length is 192 mm., 
about the same as in an average modern Englishman. 
Its width is 144 mm., slightly beyond the modern 
average, giving a cephaHc index of 75. The vault is 
flat on the top and also remarkably low, only 1 1 1 mm. 
— characters reminding us of the Bury St Edmunds 
fragment belonging to a' time long after the deposition 
of the chalky boulder clay. 
The characteristic mark of the Ipswich man lies in his 
tibia or shin bone. No human tibia of a similar shape has 
